SOBS 672* MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTH

This course will seek to provide an understanding of mental health care from a historical perspective, current management issues, government policy and legislation as they influence mental health care, mental health care reform initiatives, and impacts reform on patients and families and providers of mental health services. This course will also enable the students identify risk factors; Increase awareness about mental health disorders and the effectiveness of treatment; remove the stigma associated with receiving treatment; eliminate health disparities; and to improve access to mental health services for all persons, particularly among populations that are disproportionately affected.